http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=30900

Wooot!

this is just getting better and better

Just simply awesome game, this should work, if not, they really need to make something different and dump whole themepark thing. Really make new concept or go figure. However, when can we pre-order.

every doubt i ever had about this game is gone, it truly is an Elder scrolls

Medium Armor? Are the gods kidding me!?

... This is going to be awesome.

I would never had imagined that the elder scrolls Online would actually be an original MMO, even less an MMO with elder scrolls combat and working first person. i'm blessed right now

After reading that articile, it has brought my interested and excitment for this game up greatly.

Perhaps indeed they have been listening to us after all...

Then again, perhaps they decided to get it out of the way up front on how TESO differs from the IP as we have come to know it, to accomodate the needs of an MMO game and now they are settling down and starting to slowly show how the two games will be alike.

I still gave my concerns, but the needle on my MMOmeter is moving closer to center with this news. Time will tell..

Many of us never had no doubt, now perhaps the doomsayers will shut the hell up or move on.

Oh, they will find something else that doesn't sit right with them, no doubt. I'm just happy to see that the actual articles we read today have all been overwhelmingly positive in most aspects.

This first article sure was a positive one! I'll come back to look for the next one later today but in the mean time I am back to discovering Skyrim.

I DL'd it and the expansion pacs to get the flavor of what I heard Bethesda fans ranting over the past couple of years. It really is a refreshing experience and I am staying optimistic about this game.

Nice. Very nice. Looking forward to this in a big way. Keep up the good work Zenimax!

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/10/22/massivelys-hands-on-with-the-elder-scrolls-online/

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/feature/6819/The-Elder-Scrolls-Online-The-Comprehensive-Preview.html

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/feature/6821/The-Elder-Scrolls-Online-Stuff-We-Didnt-Play.html

The concerns of the so-called doomsayers is legitimate. The MMO industry has had its nose up Blizzard's backside for years now and no effort to do anything but imitate WoW has stagnated MMO growth. Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Well, I for one would rather see developers stop trying to flatter Blizzard by doing everything they have done, and start trying to FLATTEN them by going a different direction. This does not mean abandon mechanics that are condusive to strong MMO community building. It just means taking the games themselves down a different raod, if not blazing a new trail completely. Innovation = progression. Imitation = stagnation. It doesn't get any simpler than that.

The real problem is that WoW has grown over the years to include so much content and gameplay diversity that no MMO launching today that follows the WoW model can hope to include enough content and gameplay diversity to compare, unless they went into development when WoW launched. The key to truly competing with WoW is to do something that Blizzard isn't doing, even though they have the money and manpower to do so. I say that would be a monthly quest series. This is what Funcom is doing with The Secret World. And if they KEEP doing it, it will be that game's saving grace, even though it launched with far less systemic innovation and content than the current leading contender in the MMO arena.

Systemic innovation + regular content delivery to keep the players engaged in gameplay is the answer.

Biggest thing in my opinion is the stark contrast between the views of the uninformed articles that the haters like to tout, and the views of the informed and those that got to play the game.

Those that saw and played the game are overwhelmingly positive so far.

Haters gonna hate, but its always nice to see them drowned out and silenced by facts and positive reviews.